Dumbing of age. Doa

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>what happens when baptists from a charismatic church visit a protestant church in new england

this should be good

Mild Mannered Jacob turns the corner, takes his glasses off, opens his shirt and becomes TOKENMAN, the Nice Ethnic Superhero every multiverse needs.

>Blowjob Cat
Get ready for a forced meme.

>Joyce physically hopping and shimmying spastically
I feel like this only serves to ruin her character more than when she wanted Ryan to literally die.

>'cariously
You don't have to drop "vi" from "vicariously" just because you pretend to have an accent.

Also, Becky stares directly into your soul in the first panel.

>Protestants and Baptists
Boring. Just be Catholic. We get to eat flesh and drunk blood and party in the Pope-mobile. It's wonderful!

>Indiana is apparently in New England

>Blowjob Cat
>Get ready for a forced meme.
I'd take ToeDad meme over this crap any day.

>Joyce physically hopping and shimmying spastically
This seems so out of character. Using the word "poppin'" in relation to music seems horrifically out-of-date as well. I can accept the shimmying part, but not the hopping and waving. Joyce may be unaware of social conventions, but it makes no sense for her to actually mime out the actions as she says them.

>You don't have to drop "vi" from "vicariously" just because you pretend to have an accent.
Also, Becky calling Jacob "Jakes" is weird and uncomfortable for me. And shortening "vicariously" by only removing the first two letters is weird and ridiculous. Willis confirmed for actual robot.

Catholics are just heretical jews

I think it's just too much action for the scene, Joyce waving her arm around would be enough to sell the image.

You realize that several denominations receive Eucharist outside of Catholicism? That includes evangelicals.

Got just the right place for it.

They do that consubstantiation/it's a symbol though, not the full delicious chalice of blood.

>'cariously

What the fuck, Willis

Joyce is swinging toward the Up part of her manic mood swings, and is currently full of Light and God's Love. Also, Willis makes the common writing error of mixing "act innocent and demure" and "act like she's five"

In other news, now that Becky's an outspoken science student that likes science, she's trying to find her own trademark Deals, like vests and quirky speech patterns.

It's Quirky (tm)!

Orthodox get all that fun stuff too without having a retarded Jesuit bossing us around.

Orthodox theology supports transubstantiation, called metousiosis, and Anglicans are split on the matter.

For some reason Becky is usually written with the accent Sal is supposed to have.

>Worship leader?

Oh, baby, he's High Church Anglican, isn't he? Vestments and the Eucharist and solemn hymns and everything. Joyce is about to lose her shit. She's about to go as Catholic as she can get within the boundaries of Protestantism.

The Jesuit is only temporary, and we're working on what happens once he dies.

Trinity Episcopal Church in Bloomington is the real life church he's referencing. I'm not really sure what kind of Anglican they are though.

They can't sit down in church though.

lolwut.

That's not true.

Although I remember the sermons taking fucking forever.

The Catholic ones are a lot shorter.

Orthodox is dead.

Most patriarchs are just commie puppets, all are full retard.

What the fuck church were you going to where they wouldn't let you sit down?

>commie puppets

That sounds a lot more like the current pope, to be honest.

The USSR thoroughly infiltrated and controlled the Orthodox churches in areas under its control. It should be noted that the USSR fell 25 years ago and there is a large Orthodox presence outside of Eastern Europe.

orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/whystand.aspx

In my experience you sit and kneel frequently during Orthodox services.

I guess the different Orthodox churches do things differently, I've never seen a chair in a Russian one.

Some churches have you constantly standing for hymns that everyone has to sing.

>'cariously

It's "vicariously", slut

>It's a Jacob starts to realize this was a bad idea episode
I find the "Jakes" nickname to be more annoying than "'cariously" although the latter is quite terrible. The quirk levels and forced familiarity levels are off the charts.

I'm wondering if we'll get a strip with Jacob explaining how his church service proceeds and how to fit in, or if we'll skip over that so that Joyce and/or Becky can embarrass themselves in person. But then it ends up being the church's fault, of course.

>One (white) person in our town could dance
At least Willis is commenting on his own racial experience for once, but damn if that's the most played out of sterotypes. Dig deeper!

truthful kek

On the other hand, at least she's not giving him the nickname "Jakers".

>The quirk levels and forced familiarity levels are off the charts.

You took the words right out of my mouth. Especially if the nickname is mangling their actual name. Doing that is a pretty consistent shorthand for 'this person is a douche'.

"Hey, Albie. How's it going?"
"My name's Albert."
"Yeah, so Albie, I was thinking..."

Jacob's just been warped by the Becky field so he not only puts up with her douchery - I mean quirkiness - but compliments her after saying his outfit is wasted on him.

Heck yeah, we get to eat cheeseburgers, chorizo and chicharrones.

It's Quirky! (tm)
Becky is entering that stage in college where she's trying to find her Thing. Danny got a newsie cap and a guitar. She's going to get vests and do random accents each week.

Will she me Bostonian this week, or perhaps Philly? She might try Minnesotan for a while to see what sticks.

What denomination is Jacob supposed to be again? I'm guessing Willis is probably going for
>without all the fun stuff her church does Joyce begins to realise religion is boring and horrible

Raised C of E in England here, we stood up to sing hymns (and sing quite a lot of hymns) but sat through everything else. Also our churches have real pews. Blew my mind there were churches that didn't, but then I guess most of ours are several hundred years older than America.

Episcopalian, the church they're attending is an actual church too. From the website it looks like it has a pretty large outreach program for people interested in joining.

As far as Orthodox churches in my experience goes, you stand for hymns and certain prayers while you kneel or sit the rest of the time. Most purpose built churches have pews, or something similar to stadium/theatre seating as traditional pew-making is in decline.

I didn't really know anything about Episcopal Church, but it sounds like they're just the Church of England with the "England" bit removed because of the American revolution. Also a more liberal on the gays. Maybe I'm wrong and Willis thinks this is a "good" church as opposed to fundie Baptists? I feel like he'd probably get slaughtered by his audience for painting any religion in a positive light now though.

Why are they bringing the obnoxious lesbian with them to church?

Because she's an obnoxious christian lesbian. And Joyce's childhood friend.

Enjoy singing Psalms in near-monotone voices while staring at the bloodiest Jesus tithes can buy.

Yeah but this is a real church where the congregation doesn't like homosexuals.

I live in Bloomington. This is EXACTLY what it looks like.

Is it though?
>The Episcopal Church ordains women and LGBT people to the priesthood, the diaconate, and the episcopate, despite opposition from a number of other member churches of the global Anglican Communion. In 2003, Gene Robinson was the first non-celibate openly gay person ordained as a bishop in documented Christian history.
Sounds like they're pretty okay with the gays to me.

They're coming to SHOCK THE SYSTEM. They'll take their cakes and THROW THEM TO GROOOOUND.

I took that as the one person allowed to dance honestly.

There are numerous divisions within the Anglican Communion even within America. It all depends on your general location and the membership of the church itself. The Episcopal church I attended growing up was very conservative, something on the lower side of High Anglican in rites, but also very evangelical.

Nah, we talked about it the first time it happened.
The problem is that it's gonna be a forced meme from now on.

It's just stupid and overplayed already. I wonder if people in the area actually call it that.

I think it's moronic that he's trying to force a stupid and inappropriate name for a piece of artwork for children, especially when it is 100% unnecessary to mention it in the first place.

Also, Joyce and Becky lived 3 to 4 hours away. Becky works at a pizza place close to campus. How does she know about the cat and where it is?

I dunno about the real church but Jacob says they're down with gays.

Well, actually I looked it up and it seems they're down with gays in real life too. They have this page that opposes a bill that would "make it illegal in Indiana to recognize the marriages of same sex couples." ( trinitybloomington.org/discover/governance/on-hjr6-which-would-limit-the-definition-of-marriage/ ) I'm sure it'll come up.

>I think it's moronic that he's trying to force a stupid and inappropriate name for a piece of artwork for children, especially when it is 100% unnecessary to mention it in the first place.
Have you seen the Patreon strips with the artwork? It's got a kid calling it Blowjob Cat like it's nobody's business.

The Episcopalians falling apart because they've put a SJW in charge and she has lead the church to ram liberalization down the throats of the congregations and sue them for the church buildings if they try to leave

Yeah, I was just hoping it would stop there.

Where's Becky? Where's Becky! There's Becky!
Joyce is much cuter lately. When's she gonna pop out some welfare babies?

>all black guys have big lips
>Joyce's mouth has been possessed by aliens
>Jacob is vague about Raidah's religion
>Jacob pretends that his conversations with Sarah about Joyce have been positive
>Joe looks like his soul has escaped from his body
>Joyce has a problem with hippies for some reason

>Becky somehow knows where the sculpture is
>Jacob can't use context clues to figure out what a "worship leader is"
>Joyce uses the word "poppin'"
>Joyce hops up and down in public
>Everything about Becky is horrible, as usual

>>Becky somehow knows where the sculpture is
Why is thos something that bothers you?

Becky was inside of us all along!

Deep down, a lot of people want to be the Zany Fun-Loving one of the friend group. The Michelangelo, if you will.

She's barely been in Bloomington. She pretty much only goes to campus and to work at Galasso's. We've never been given any indication that she's done any exploring of the town. She's also super-sheltered and wouldn't ordinarily use the word "blowjob" anyway. She censors herself a lot.

She's also an aspiring Scientist who needs the concept of evolution explained to her by her actual scientist girlfriend.

Has she even applied for school yet? Or is she just farting around at the pizza place?

She can get scholarships for being a lesbian and for being in a low-income situation. Watch no one help her, but it gets taken care of anyway somehow.

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>Joyce has a problem with hippies for some reason
Well she's a very traditional fundamentalist, hippies do clash with that ideal, even if the term sounds extremely outdated.

The Anglican Communion it a collection of autonomous provinces connected by rites and sacraments that function as a loose confederation under the nominal direction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who holds no executive power over the provinces.

She's mentioned applications before, but Willis hasn't shown anything. Showing Becky buckling down and preparing for next semester would be a better use of the character than his current shtick.

I think you mean
>Showing Lesbian Becky buckling lesbianward and sapphically preparing for the in-sue-ing semester would be a more lesbionic use of the lesbian than [??? word not found, most likely substitute ->] lesbian's current shlick.

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>Becky, I realize you've got a bit of pent up issues involving your lesbianism and parental figures, but, despite what Joe might have told you, just because you don't have a dick doesn't mean it's "totes not cheating." I'm not going to say anything but I think you need to have a long talk with Dina about what you want and need out of your relationship with her. Also, if you're going to stick your tongue where I think you were heading you really need to warn a girl so she can get properly cleaned up for it unless you want norovirus.

This is sadly accurate. Willis hasn't bothered to learn anything about etiquette when it comes to women-loving women.

>Slipping a casual Heil Hitler into your porn
Too far Willis

I'm halfway tempted to link DoA to a former Gender Studies professor of mine who focuses on lesbian depictions in media.

"Don't worry, Willis is an Ally to the Cause! The Cool Nerd Dad that will speak for the LBGTQ cause for them. You're welcome!"

Do it.

If the result is funny, let us know what happens.

Please do! There are more bisexual women than lesbians, but many of the bi people function more like gay people.

Bisexual:
1. Ruth
2. Marcie (mute, not deaf)
3. Billie
4. Danny
5. Mike (whichever preference spites you the most)
6. Sierra (footloose and fancy free)
7. Grace (dating Mandy, lives with her)
8. Mandy (looks like Willis)

Gay:
1. Becky
2. Leslie (Gender Studies prof)
Becky
3. Daisy (Newspaper editor-in-chief)
Becky
4. Ethan
Becky
5. Kaitlin (Becky’s old roomie)
Becky
6. Mindy (until proven bi)
Becky
7. Anna (until proven bi)

Generally undefinably not straight:
1. Robin
2. Malaya
3. Dina

Willis definitely needed another pass on those outlines. Lots black in brown spots and vice versa.

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fucking racists

This implies it was a hard choice for him.

Hasn't she already gone to another church several times? I know the time drag on this thing has been big but no way Joyce missed those other sundays.

Yes, but it's basically the same style of church as her hometown church.

I believe that Joyce has been going to the church Mary told her about since school started. She went back home and went to church there, then she came back and I think this is the first Sunday since then.

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I will never get tired of seeing Joyce in your style. What a cutie.

How come I haven't seen a DOA thread here in fucking weeks? I thought the topic must have been banned or something, wondering when the webcomics containment board was gonna show up.

>You don't have to drop "vi" from "vicariously" just because you pretend to have an accent.
>And shortening "vicariously" by only removing the first two letters is weird and ridiculous. Willis confirmed for actual robot.
>'cariously
>What the fuck, Willis
Seriously, I don't care what kind of drawl she's supposed to have, the first syllable of "vicariously" is one of the heavier, more emphasized ones. Absolutely no one would drop it.

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What a waste of a comic strip.

I've been posting this thread every day for almost a month. Sometimes it doesn't last too long, but w/e

I can understand the need for a setup strip, but sometimes he needs to restrict them to the collections.

Literally just across the lot from the main cast. This isn't that big a Thing.

Impressive that Billie could fit all her belongings in one suitcase and one untaped cardboard box.

Also, the password is NOT "taketwo" nor any variants of such. Anybody know what hall this is supposed to be? Because that might be the password.

Despite being rich, she only had a small amount of stuff when she moved out of Ruth's. And her side of the room was almost empty while she was staying with Ruth, yet you saw nothing of hers in Ruth's room. Billie is like a ghost. She's supposed to care a lot about fashion and stuff, but she really... doesn't.

I tried "movingday," "suitcase," "box," "glasses," "move," and "newdorm." No luck. I bet it is the dorm name, but I can't bother to remember.

Mary went to the same kind of goofy, broke-ass church as Joyce where they can't even afford pews?

The Lord doesn't care about how nice your pews are, user.

whoa the thread hadn't been deleted yet.

Don't jinx it!

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So apparently Willis doesn't know how the inside of the new dorm looks like. He's getting reference pictures this weekend. So we won't see inside until a month from now?

It's "bigtitties"

>black guy
>not a baptist
>white girls
>are baptists

How does that work? I mean I know there are white baptists but they're usually in the South.

8-9 months, he's got a buffer.

Lesbian with a southernish accent? It's just quirky enough to work.